Neo-cons come out guns blazing By Jim Lobe

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HJ12Aa01.html

Oct 12, 2006


Neo-cons come out guns blazing
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea's borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent US neo-conservatives in the wake of Pyongyang's reported testing of an atomic bomb.

Writing in publications ranging from National Review Online (NRO) to the New York Times, neo-conservatives claim, contrary to the lessons drawn by "realists" and other critics of the George W



Bush administration, that Monday's supposed test vindicates their
long-held view that negotiations with "rogue" states such as North Korea are useless and that "regime change" - by military means, if necessary - is the only answer.

"With our intelligence on North Korea so uneven, the doctrine of preemption must return to the fore," wrote Dan Blumenthal, an Asia specialist at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) who worked for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during President Bush's first term, in the NRO on Tuesday. "Any talk of renewed six-party talks must be resisted." ......

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1. The neocons always choose the military response

to every problem.

Instead of being a last resort, it is their first choice.

Whose the treat to world peace around here?

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2. One might say they are pretty fucking stupid huh

And I oh so love their plan that SOMEONE ELSE will fight the wars they love to start.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Delusional is more like it

They talk a good game but they are full of shit. The scary part is some of them, like Paul Wolfowitz, seem to really believe their own fantasies, despite the overwhelming reality of their failures.